Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
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... divine , and Cutbeard as a canon - lawyer ; and the two argue the whole question of the grounds of divorce with unparalleled humor and an utter dis- regard of decency ; they cavil and dispute over every one of their twelve impedi- menta ...
... divine , and Cutbeard as a canon - lawyer ; and the two argue the whole question of the grounds of divorce with unparalleled humor and an utter dis- regard of decency ; they cavil and dispute over every one of their twelve impedi- menta ...
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... divine ; It is a golden chain let down from heaven , Whose links are bright and even , That falls like sleep on lovers , and combines The soft and sweetest minds In equal knots : this bears no brands nor darts , To murder different ...
... divine ; It is a golden chain let down from heaven , Whose links are bright and even , That falls like sleep on lovers , and combines The soft and sweetest minds In equal knots : this bears no brands nor darts , To murder different ...
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... Divine Creator . " My God , " may we not exclaim with Voltaire , " Thou art great ! " " Who is there that can not be- lieve in thee ! " We regret that our space will not per- mit us to give some account of our author's personal history ...
... Divine Creator . " My God , " may we not exclaim with Voltaire , " Thou art great ! " " Who is there that can not be- lieve in thee ! " We regret that our space will not per- mit us to give some account of our author's personal history ...
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... Divine arm is at work before our eyes , and under our hands , that reason re- cognizes its presence , and the affections feel its power . of imagination with much affectation of originality ; and originality 58 [ May , RAMBLES OF A ...
... Divine arm is at work before our eyes , and under our hands , that reason re- cognizes its presence , and the affections feel its power . of imagination with much affectation of originality ; and originality 58 [ May , RAMBLES OF A ...
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... divine . Hardly his voice at its best Gives us a sense of the awe , The vastness , the grandeur , the gloom Of the unlit gulf of himself . " -Poems , ( Second Series , ) p . 194 . ON THE RHINE . " Vain is the effort to forget Some day I ...
... divine . Hardly his voice at its best Gives us a sense of the awe , The vastness , the grandeur , the gloom Of the unlit gulf of himself . " -Poems , ( Second Series , ) p . 194 . ON THE RHINE . " Vain is the effort to forget Some day I ...
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Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 410 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 411 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 410 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 410 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 8 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 239 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 123 - The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth.
Page 8 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 470 - ... a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well.
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| Title | Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44 |
| Editors | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell |
| Publisher | Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2005 |
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